"Tom Ford (snooker player) Tom Ford (born 17 August 1983 in Glen Parva, Leicestershire) is an English professional snooker player from the Midlands. As a junior, he played against Mark Selby frequently. Ford began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour in 2001, at the time the second-level professional tour. His first quarter-final came at the 2005 Malta Cup where he beat Ken Doherty, but eventually lost to Stephen Hendry. In the 2007 Grand Prix, he made a 147 against Steve Davis, after having just come out of hospital suffering from gastroenteritis, but still missed out on the last 16"
"Maximum break In snooker, under normal circumstances, the maximum break is 147, also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven. This score is attained by potting all 15 with 15 for 120 points, followed by all six for a further 27 points, all in a single break i.e. without any misses. Joe Davis made the first officially recognized maximum break in a 1955 exhibition match in London. In 1982, Steve Davis achieved the first recognised maximum in professional competition, which was also the first maximum to occur during a televised match. The following year, Cliff Thorburn became"
"John Spencer (snooker player) John Spencer (18 September 1935 – 11 July 2006) was an English professional snooker player who won the World Professional title at his first attempt, was the first winner at the Crucible Theatre, was the inaugural winner of the Masters and Irish Masters and was the first player to make a 147 break in competition. This is regarded as an unofficial maximum break as the event used non templated tables. Spencer was born in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. Spencer started his snooker career at the age of 15. Snooker was in decline during his youth, and he"
"future world champion John Pulman who each both won it on two occasions. He made history in 1955 by achieving the first officially recognised maximum break of 147 in snooker in an exhibition match at Leicester Square Hall. He had previously made the game's first official in 1930. In 1959 Davis attempted to popularise a new version of the game called snooker plus. This game had two extra , an orange and a purple and was used for the 1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament but it never took off. In 1962, when over 60 years of age,"
"and was looking for programmes that could exploit this new technology. Broadcasting snooker, then still a minor sport, was the brainchild of the then controller of BBC Two, David Attenborough. The first ""Pot Black"" was held in 1969 at the BBC Studios in Birmingham. The programme first aired on 23 July 1969, on BBC2. The event featured eight players, namely Gary Owen, Jackie Rea, John Pulman, Ray Reardon, Fred Davis, Rex Williams, Kingsley Kennerley and John Spencer. The event continued until 1986, by which time more and more snooker events were being televised and the ""Pot Black"" format was becoming"
"from his position in November 1996, he had been a member of the governing board for 25 years. John Spencer (snooker player) John Spencer (18 September 1935 – 11 July 2006) was an English professional snooker player who won the World Professional title at his first attempt, was the first winner at the Crucible Theatre, was the inaugural winner of the Masters and Irish Masters and was the first player to make a 147 break in competition. This is regarded as an unofficial maximum break as the event used non templated tables. Spencer was born in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. Spencer"
"since 1927, with Joe Davis becoming a key figure in the early growth of the sport with 15 championship wins from 1927 to 1946. The modern era began in 1969 after the BBC commissioned the snooker television show ""Pot Black"" and began to air the World Championship in 1978, leading to the sport's new peak in popularity. Ray Reardon dominated the game in the 1970s, Steve Davis in the 1980s, and Stephen Hendry in the 1990s; Ronnie O'Sullivan has won the most world titles since 2000. Top professional players now compete regularly around the world and earn millions of pounds."
"who played. In 1959, Davis introduced a variation of the game known as ""snooker plus"" (see the ""Variations"" section below) to try to improve the game's popularity by adding two extra colours, but it never caught on. A major advance occurred in 1969, when David Attenborough commissioned the snooker television series ""Pot Black"" to demonstrate the potential of colour television with the green table and multi-coloured balls being ideal for showing off the advantages of colour broadcasting. The series became a ratings success and was for a time the second-most popular show on BBC Two. Interest in the game increased"
"1937 the BBC showed a short, 10-minute, TV programme, ""an exhibition of play by Horace Lindrum and Willie Smith. This is the first television demonstration of snooker. Both the players are expert professionals. Horace Lindrum, a nephew of the great Walter Lindrum, comes from Australia and is one of the few snooker players who can rival Joe Davis, the champion."" The programme was repeated at 9:35 pm on 16 April. Horace Lindrum Horace Lindrum (born Horace Norman William Morrell, 15 January 1912 – 20 June 1974) was an Australian professional snooker and billiards player. The dominant snooker player in Australia,"
"date is shown on the record as 1982. The original track, without those modifications, can be found as track 6 of the CD ""The Great Sporting Experience"", published by EMI in 1998 (CD GOAL 1). This is credited to ""Doug Wood Group"", licensed from Studio G. BBC Sport no longer uses this particular track as the main theme of snooker coverage. Instead, it has been heavily updated and remixed a number of times. The 2003 version was entitled ""147 Lockdown"" by Sheldon Southworth presumably in reference to British speed garage act 187 Lockdown. The version currently airing is by Timo"
"1979 Pot Black The 1979 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. 8 players were competing in 2 four player groups. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs except the final which was played in the best of 3 frames on a one-hour programme. Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Friday 29 December 1978 Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee. This tournament had the TV debut of Steve Davis who played veteran namesake Fred Davis on the programme transmitted"
"professional competition. The first, at the 2007 Masters, made him, at the age of 19 years and 7 months, the youngest player to have made a televised 147. The second came at the 2008 UK Championship. The third came in the first round of the FFB Snooker Open in 2011. His fourth maximum came only two days after his third in a 4–1 victory against James Cahill. The fifth maximum he achieved in his quarter-final of the 2013 PTC Finals against Mark Allen. His sixth maximum was made in the quarter final stage of the Welsh Open on 19 February"
"creating a potential maximum break of 155 if a player starts from a free ball position. In October 2004, during qualifying for the UK Championship, Jamie Burnett became the only player to record a break of more than 147 in tournament play, when he scored 148 against Leo Fernandez. He took the brown as the free ball, then potted the brown again followed by the 15 reds with 12 blacks, two pinks and a blue, then the six colours. On a few occasions, breaks exceeding 147 have been reported in non-tournament settings: Maximum break In snooker, under normal circumstances, the"
"when winning a 4th frame, regardless of how many frames the other player has. In professional tournaments there was usually a substantial prize awarded to any player achieving a 147 break. For example, Ronnie O'Sullivan's maximum at the 1997 World Championship earned him £165,000. Of this, £147,000 was for making the 147 break and £18,000 was for achieving the highest break of the tournament. This was however abolished in the 2010/2011 season. In the 2011/2012 season World Snooker introduced a roll-over system for the maximum break prize money, the ""rolling 147 prize"". A maximum break is worth £5,000 in the"
"red then a pink, before failing to pot the next red. The traditional maximum break in snooker is achieved by potting all reds with blacks then all colours, yielding 147 points; this is often known as a ""147"" or a ""maximum"". The highest possible break is a 155 break, also known as a ""super maximum"". This is achieved via the opponent leaving a , with the black being potted as the additional colour, and then potting 15 reds and blacks with the colours. Jamie Cope has the distinction of being the first player in snooker history to post a verified"
"Billiards Champion John Roberts travelled to India in 1885, he met Chamberlain and decided to introduce snooker to England when he returned home. The first official competitions, the English Amateur Championships, took place in 1916. In 1927, Joe Davis helped to establish the first Professional World Championship of snooker. Joe Davis won and took home the prize of six pounds and ten shillings. At that time, the standard of play was not very high considering that the highest break of that tournament was just 60. By the 1930s, Snooker was becoming one of the most popular cue sports. Joe Davis"
"referee. The tournament featured its first overseas player making his TV debut, Australia's Eddie Charlton who went on to win the tournament beating Ray Reardon 88–27 in the final broadcast on 26 July. 1972 Pot Black The 1972 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was broadcast in 1972. The tournament was held in Birmingham, and featured six professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs. Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Wednesday 12 April 1972 The tournament this year was reduced to 6 players. There was a qualifying stage in which each competitor played three"
"1977 Pot Black The 1977 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, and this year, the tournament expanded from 8 to 12 players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs. Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Friday 7 January 1977 Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee. With 12 players now competing in this series, The round robin format has now become 4 groups of 3 players. The two debutants Perrie Mans and Doug Mountjoy faced each other in the"
"1997 Seniors Pot Black The 1997 Seniors Pot Black was a one-off invitational snooker tournament of the popular series Pot Black. Recording took place during early 1997 and broadcast in March. The tournament was held at Goodwood House in Chichester, Sussex. It featured 12 veteran players in a knock-out system both aged over 40. All matches until the final were one-frame shoot-outs and the final being contested over the best of three frames. Broadcasts were shown on teatime daily on BBC2 and the series started at 17:30 on Monday 3 March 1997. David Vine presented the programme and Ted Lowe"
"Pot Black was revived in the form of several one-off tournaments throughout the 1990s and up to 2007. Pot Black helped transform snooker from a minority sport with just a handful of professionals into one of the most popular sports in the United Kingdom. Mark Williams holds the events' highest break record of 119. The World Championship was first televised in 1973. World rankings were introduced in 1976, and, in 1977, the World Championship was held in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, where it has been ever since. Daily television coverage of the World Championship began in 1978. The 1980s"
"table. The game's box indicates six-time World Snooker Champion Steve Davis in a starring role. The game offers 52 minutes of instructional videos with Davis, and the option to pause the video and attempt the shot being demonstrated by the game. This live-action material also includes the world's first televised maximum break in history, completed by Davis. Ronnie O'Sullivan, another top-level professional player, acts as presenter in the game (both he and Davis feature in the cover art, superimposed on snooker balls). O'Sullivan would later work on ""World Snooker Championship 2007"" and his own game, ""Ronnie O'Sullivan's Snooker"". Critical Reception"
"Powell, entrepreneur Barry Hearn, and snooker and pool player Steve Davis. The series was hosted by Phillip Schofield and its set was designed by Andy Walmsley. The sole season, in 1995, saw Jimmy White win the tournament, while Peter Ebdon achieved the highest break of 122 (out of a possible 200). The hybrid snooker/pool game the show revolves around is not regularly played outside the show, and features a () of 16 in a diamond configuration, 15 worth 1 each and a black-and-yellow 10 ball, as well as various with differing point values, on specific . The pack is not"
"not worthy of a 147. World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn called the decision ""unacceptable"" and ""disrespectful"". A break higher than 147 can be achieved when an opponent before any reds are potted, and leaves the incoming player (blocked) on all 15 reds. The player can nominate one of the other as a red, known as a """", which carries the same value as a red for just that shot. If the free ball is potted, the referee places back this colored ball on its original location, ""de facto"" creating a setup as if there were 16 reds in total, thus"
"Champion Stephen Hendry. He retired in 2004. He is now a maths teacher and plays local league snooker. Mick Price (snooker player) Michael ""Mick"" Price (born June 2, 1966 in Nuneaton) is a retired English professional snooker player. He turned professional in 1988 and is best known for being Ronnie O'Sullivan's opponent when O'Sullivan scored the fastest 147 break in the game's history, at the 1997 World Championship. O'Sullivan won the match by 10–6. At the 1990 Benson & Hedges Satellite Championships, Mick became only the third player to compile three consecutive century breaks (in professional competition) when making contributions"
"gave Jackie Rea 7 and Rex Williams 10 while Jackie Rea gave Rex Williams 5 points. The handicaps in the Fred Davis/Pulman and Pulman/Donaldson matches are not known. Walter Donaldson made a break of 141 in his opening match against Joe Davis. Table The positions were determined firstly by the number of matches won (MW) and, in the event of a tie, the number of frames won (FW). The BBC showed a short, 35 minute, TV programme of the final day of the final match from Houldsworth Hall, Manchester. The commentator was Sidney Smith. 1957/1958 News of the World Snooker"
"for programmes that could exploit this new technology. The programme first aired on 23 July 1969, on BBC2. Pot Black was a British series of (non-ranking) snooker tournaments televised by BBC which played a large part in the popularisation of the modern game. In 1972, a twenty-three year old Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins clinched the first of his two World Titles and through a mixture of bravado, charisma and an ability to make headlines helped to popularise the sport in the new age of colour television. The event continued until 1986, returned in 1990, but was discontinued after the 1993 event."
"from victory. On the final day Davis won three frames in the afternoon to lead 14–5 and eventually won 16–7. Cope made a 60 break in frame 21, winning the frame 87–24. The match between Inman and Carpenter was also played at Thurston's Hall, Leicester Square in London. Like the Inman v Newman match it was played as an added extra to a billiards match. The billiards match was to 7,000 with Carpenter receiving a 1,000 start. The match was played from Monday 14 to Saturday 19 March 1927 with two sessions per day. One frame of snooker was generally"
"on to win the Pot Black title at the first attempt beating John Spencer in the final. For the first time the final was decided on aggregate score over two frames, shown on 14 and 21 May, Miles won both frames, 77–37 and 70–49, winning by a score of 147-86. 1974 Pot Black The 1974 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, and featured eight professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs. Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Tuesday 5 February 1974 Alan Weeks presented the"
"Pot Black Pot Black was a BBC television series of annual snooker tournaments held in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1986, which carried no ranking points, but played a large part in the popularisation of the modern game. The event was revived in the form of several one-off tournaments throughout the 1990s and up to 2007. ""Pot Black"" helped transform snooker from a minority sport with just a handful of professionals into one of the most popular sports in the United Kingdom. Mark Williams holds the event's highest record of 119. The BBC began broadcasting in colour in 1967"
"1927 World Snooker Championship The 1927 World Snooker Championship was a snooker tournament held at various venues throughout the season. This was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was organised by Joe Davis and Bill Camkin. The final took place at the Camkin's Hall in Birmingham, England with Joe Davis winning the title by defeating Tom Dennis. Originally called the Professional Snooker Championship, it did not become the World Championship until 1935. The highest break of the tournament was 60, made by Albert Cope in his match against Joe Davis. In recognition of this break Cope later received a"
"using a rule (now standard) whereby after a foul a player could compel the offender to play the next stroke. It was only at a meeting on 20 March 1957 that they recognised the break. Davis was presented with a certificate to commemorate his achievement. The match between Davis and Smith was played as part of a series of events marking the closure of Leicester Square Hall. The hall, known as Thurston's Hall until 1947, had hosted many important billiards and snooker matches since its opening in 1901, including 12 World Snooker Championship finals. John Spencer made the first tournament"
"and the 1978 World Snooker Championship was the first to be fully televised. The game quickly became a mainstream game in the UK, Ireland and much of the Commonwealth and has enjoyed much success since the late 1970s, with most of the ranking tournaments being televised. In 1985 a total of 18.5 million viewers watched the concluding frame of the world championship final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis. The loss of tobacco sponsorship during the 2000s led to a decrease in the number of professional tournaments, although some new sponsors were sourced; and the popularity of the game in"
"include John Parrott, Neal Foulds and the two finalists Dean Reynolds and Dene O'Kane. Reynolds won the title 151–79 and soon turned professional afterwards. 1981 Junior Pot Black The 1981 Junior Pot Black was the first staging of the junior snooker tournament which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. 12 young players were competing in a qualifying round before 6 of the winners go on to the round-robin stage of 2 groups of three. The matches are one-frame shoot-outs and 2 frame aggregate scores in the final. Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 18:55 on Friday"